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For the Motherland

This Soviet World War II propaganda poster was created by Aleksey Gumbertovich Sittaro in 1941. The Russian title “За Родину” means “For the…

Italian fishermen at Fisherman’s Wharf, San Francisco, Calif. Circa 1883.

Italian fisherman sitting in a boat in fisherman's Wharf

Confederate Dead

Gardner's title for this image is "Confederate soldiers as they fell near the Burnside bridge."

Lincoln and McClellan

President Lincoln visits General McClellan at his headquarters on October 4, 1862. Visible on the ground at the lower left is a captured Confederate…

Execution of Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold, and George Atzerodt

In the 19th century, some U.S. states reduced capital crimes, moved executions out of the public eye, or abolished the death penalty, with Michigan…

Alexander Park Letter

Alexander Parker Crittenden letter to his wife, Clara

Alexandria gazette (Alexandria, D.C.), May 15, 1861

It is still early in the civil war and are still trying to gather all the details.

Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich

A journalist by trade, who now suffers from an immune deficiency developed while researching this book, presents personal accounts of what happened to…

2B1 Oka, 2Б1 Ока, Artillery Museum, Saint-Petersburg pic1.JPG

Photographed at the Military-historical Museum of Artillery, Engineer and Signal Corps, Saint Petersburg.